Hi everyone im in the process of fixing an on old Cooey model 60 for a friends kid to use. The problem is someone glued the stock together without aligning it very well. Does anyone have any tried and true methods for removing wood glue from two pieces glued together ?
Help removing wood glue
- Thread starter Stw81
- Start date
Try vinegar. Works with PVA and other plastic wood glues. Repeatedly painting on fresh vinegar over the glue line should eventually soften it, allowing some scraping away or prying to allow more vinegar penetration. Unfortunately if the glued area is very deep this can be impossible, but you can always try anyway. Neutralizing the acidity with some hydrogen peroxide then thoroughly rinsing in water is a good idea if the wood is nice and you want to minimize discolouration and structural degradation.
Other than that I suppose you could try gently heating it through, with a hot air gun, trying to make sure you don't overheat and burn the wood. Can't un-burn wood. But if heated sufficiently all the way through, the glue could become soft enough to just pull it apart, and then scrape, carve, whatever you need to do to get rid of it and glue the thing together properly.
Other than that I suppose you could try gently heating it through, with a hot air gun, trying to make sure you don't overheat and burn the wood. Can't un-burn wood. But if heated sufficiently all the way through, the glue could become soft enough to just pull it apart, and then scrape, carve, whatever you need to do to get rid of it and glue the thing together properly.
Not really much you can do as far as taking it part. Probably do more damage trying to get it apart. Short of soaking the whole stock in water which will cause more problems. Either sand the wood down even or find a new stock. Cooey stocks aren’t that hard to find.
LOL To OP the gun could have sentimental value.
You could try steam, depending on the glue, but wood is not that hard to find.
I could make one easier than fix a old miss glued one. that reminds me, I should check what walnut I have left.
No ,I don't do that any more. There was a stock in the EE I think, not sure what model as I was just skimming.
I could make one easier than fix a old miss glued one. that reminds me, I should check what walnut I have left.
No ,I don't do that any more. There was a stock in the EE I think, not sure what model as I was just skimming.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Is good to hear that you got it resolved to your satisfaction - my experience was only with a cracked hand-guard that someone tried to glue previously and did not hold - so about convinced me that repairing a break with a failed repair is much more than two time the work of doing it correctly, in the first place. In this case, I was able to use a dental pick to scrape out most of the previous glue - and likely lost more wood fibres doing so - I was able to get the edges more or less together - then did gouges with dremel inside and coated with metal wire formed to shape and epoxy on inside - then clamped to original shape - did not get exact perfect - I ended up using a putty wood filler pencil to fill that crack on visible side - likely makes no sense at all to pay someone to try doing what I did - but I had the stuff, had the issue, and had to try it.
